Eugene Myers
Director at MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEugene Myers is a veteran computational biologist and director with over three decades of leadership across academia and industry, currently heading research at the MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. He blends deep expertise in bioinformatics, bioimage analysis, and custom light microscopy with a strong computer science foundation (Ph.D., University of Colorado) and an early training in mathematics from Caltech. His career spans senior roles from VP of Informatics at Celera to professorships and a group leadership at HHMI Janelia, reflecting a rare ability to translate cutting‑edge algorithmic work into practical laboratory tools and large collaborative projects. Known for bridging theory and instrumentation, he has repeatedly built teams that deliver both software and bespoke imaging systems, helping advance quantitative cell biology.
12 years of coding experience
California Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (27)
blast10
mer10
assembly10
graph10
shotgun10
sequence-alignment10
file-format10
tsne10
specification10
counter10
bioinformatics10
decoder10
taxonomy9
compressor9
python9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thegenemyers/DALIGNER
Jul 2014 - Dec 2022
Find all significant local alignments between reads
Contributions:1 release, 119 commits, 1 PR in 8 years 6 months
alignmentsalignmentbioinformaticssequence-alignment
thegenemyers/DAMAPPER
Jul 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
genomereference-genomegenomicsbioinformaticsmapping
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